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Dinosaur 13

When paleontologists made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery, the largest, most complete T. rex ever found, it was the beginning of a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists, not only to keep their dinosaur but their own freedom.

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Interview With Peter Larson and Todd Douglas Miller

“As a human being, I like to look forward for the next great new thing, but as a paleontologist, I also look backward all the time. We look backward at Sue’s life and looking at her heel injuries and things that give us snapshots of moments in her life, if we get enough of them, we can put them back together.”

Don’t Believe the Anti-Government Tale

The Wilderness Act

Learn more about the act that created the US National Wilderness Preservation System and provided the means for Americans to induct unspoiled areas into the system.

Florida Fossil Hunter Gets Credit For Big Find

“It’s one of the most significant pieces of prehistoric art ever found in North America — a carving of a mammoth or mastodon on a piece of fossilized bone dating back to the Ice Age. An amateur fossil hunter found it several years ago in Vero Beach, Florida. Now, after three years of study, a team of researchers say they believe it’s authentic.”

New Tech for Ancient Fossils

The modern study of extinct animals is being driven by cutting-edge imaging technology, 3D modeling and virtual reconstruction and dissection—advancing our knowledge of the ancient animals but also of other species old and new. New imaging techniques are even allowing fossils to be virtually removed from surrounding rock; the resulting virtual bones can be easily shared and studied, or even printed.

Top 10 Most Expensive Auction Items

“Apart from his soulful voice and swinging hips, Elvis Presley was known for his hair. So it’s perhaps no surprise that a strand from the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s pompadour — surreptitiously hoarded by his personal barber — would bring in more dough than hair from John Lennon ($48,000), John F. Kennedy ($3,000) and Beethoven ($7,300) combined.”